Cyberattacks against media aided by tools ‘offered openly’ by companies

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Attacks Against Media News

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' appears to be part of an emerging censorship strategy that poses a serious transnational threat to press freedom and access to information,' the Committee to Protect Journalists senior researcher Jonathan Rozen says

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The Committee to Protect Journalists , in its latest analysis published Tuesday, July 30, said that this reality makes it hard for media organizations around the world to defend themselves. “If you can large-scale anonymize many, many internet connections, there’s a lot of bad things you can do,” he told CPJ.

IPI’s website was down for three days following an attack in September 2023, while Meduza said that its “largest” DDoS attack in April 2024 resulted in them being unable to publish for four hours.

 

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